Paula Vogel News

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announced today that Beth Whitaker has been promoted to Associate Artistic Director after seven years with the company. In a newly created position, Jennie Greer has joined the staff as Director of Theatre Advancement.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

Love Lasts on Myrtle Avenue, a new play by Jimmy Breslin, will star theatre veterans Rip Torn and Lois Smith when it is presented as a staged reading at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in Falmouth, MA from July 13th through 15th

One of the most popular new musicals of the season -- [title of show], which extended its run three times Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre will return, by popular demand, for a limited engagement this summer starting July 14.

The Vineyard Theatre offers its first online charity auction -- featuring rare, autographed theatre, film and television collectibles; opening night and film premiere tickets; backstage tours of Broadway's biggest shows; lunches with celebrities; and much more -- on eBay.com, now through May 3rd. Proceeds benefit the not-for-profit Vineyard Theatre

The Pulitzer Prize committee has decided not to give out its prestigious Drama award this year.

Playwright Rinne Groff and theatre artist Basil Twist are among those selected as recipients of 2006 John Simon Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Adam Rapp will workshop his new play Essential Self-Defense at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in Falmouth, Massachusetts on July 6th, 7th and 8th; the staged reading will be performed at the Falmouth Academy private school

A Weekly Theater Column for the Baltimore/Washington Area

[title of show] -- the new hit musical by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell -- extends its Off-Broadway premiere through April 9 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street), it has been announced by Vineyard Theatre's Artistic Director Douglas Aibel.

The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) will continue its 24th season with [title of show], the much buzzed-about new musical by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence McNally and Paula Vogel are among those who will appear at the 92nd Street Y in the first half of 2006

Signature Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful will be extended for six weeks through February 29th, 2006

Deb Margolin has been awarded the Kesselring Prize for Playwriting

The Trip to Bountiful, for which tickets are $15, will open on December 4 after beginning previews on November 15th

Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.

Ten new works from the Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway 2004-2005 theatre season have been selected for publication in the latest Best Plays Theater Yearbook

The Best Plays Theatre Yearbook, 2003-2004 will honor both male and female playwrights with more of an emphasis on the women this year

Ars Nova and The Underwood Theater present, as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, YEMAYA'S BELLY by Quiara Hudes and directed by Peter Sampieri. YEMAYA'S BELLY will be read by Stephanie Beatriz, Alexis Camins, Gilbert Cruz, Joaquin Torres, Brigette Viellieu-Davis on Monday, May 16 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street).